Representative of the Malvian family, homelandwhich is considered the Celestial Empire or Western India, hibiscus has long established itself in our apartments and estates, finding loyal fans among Russian florists.
Including about two hundred species of genushibiscus, wild-growing and "domesticated", is quite extensive and is represented by various plants - trees, shrubs, perennial and annual grasses. The basis of the genus is still a woody shrub - decorative and flowering and striking in solemnity and splendor. This is what the plant is known to Russian florists, calling it a Chinese rose and successfully nurturing houses. In nature, hibiscus grows in the humid tropics and subtropics, often forming lush blossoming thickets.
Large exquisite flowers with bright, elegantthe coronals, blossoming at the ends of the shoots, are very beautiful. They made the plant a national symbol of Hawaii and a particularly revered culture in many countries of East Asia and South America. Dark green leaves of varying degrees of incision, dense and petiolate, support the decorative nature of the plant. The fruit-box, divided into several leaves, contains many seeds, smooth or slightly pubescent.
Hibiscus, whose photo is presented inpublication, not only decorative, but also useful. Young leaves and stems of many kinds of plants are used for food, and seeds, fruits and roots serve as raw materials in pharmacology, medicine of perfumery. We also learn the peculiarities of growing a culture in a house and garden.
This famous greenhouse plant, evergreendecorative shrubbery, rapidly growing and pleasing with luxurious flowering every spring-summer period. There are more than 500 varieties of this culture, called here as an indoor flower hibiscus, Chinese rose.
Plants often forgive the flower growers errors inagrotechnics of cultivation, but the consequences still come and manifest themselves in different ways. For example, understand why hibiscus does not bloom by analyzing the quality of all care activities - watering, lighting, observing the necessary temperature regime and transplantation.
Photophilous hibiscus requires good lighting,takes even a short-time direct rays of the sun. He needs the light all year round, and during the vegetation period and during rest. The air temperature in the room where the culture is located should be moderate and maintained at the level:
Reducing the temperature to +8 ... + 10 ° C may cause the leaves to fall off and stop the budding.
Особое внимание уделяют правилам полива таких lovers of moisture, like hibiscus. The photos shown in the article emphasize the beauty and decorativeness of the culture, and this is due to competent moisturizing. Generous watering is provided during the active vegetation period, maintaining a normal level of soil moisture. Water the plant as soon as the top layer of the soil begins to die. In winter, the intensity is reduced by moistening the soil about once a week or less, if the flower is contained in a room with lowered temperatures (+12 ... + 14 ° C). But to the humidity of the air the plant is calm, but welcomes sprinkling with warm water, taking them as a means of increasing decorative and hygienic procedure.
Rapid growth and qualitative blossoming of hibiscusIt is impossible without regular feeding of the plant. In the spring-summer season, it is fed monthly with nitrogen-containing mineral fertilizers, which stimulate prolonged flowering. The introduction of fertilizers in winter is conditioned by the conditions of detention. If the plant is in a habitual room with a comfortable temperature, then once in 1-1.5 months it needs phosphorus-potassium top dressing with a solution concentration reduced by half from the recommended rate. When you are in a cool environment, hibiscus does not fertilize.
The correct maintenance of a house plant is notwill cause anomalies in development, and the question of why the hibiscus does not bloom will not arise. We examined the peculiarities of growing room culture, but there is also a garden.
A common ornamental perennialshrub grown in open spaces is Syrian hibiscus. The southern origin of the plant also implies its thermophilic nature. And if it is impossible to cultivate it in the gardens of northern latitudes, then in the warmer regions the Syrian hibiscus is successfully cultivated, surrounding with care, warming for the winter and taking care of it qualitatively.
Garden hibiscus as well as home hibiscus requiresattention. Illiterate care for him will provoke the same question - why does not blossom hibiscus. Let's list the conditions that must be met when growing it in the country.
Syrian hibiscus blossoms luxuriantly only whenprovided a sufficient amount of sunlight, he frankly does not tolerate the shadow. In an open, light area, the culture grows to a meter and a half, while the bush is very compact, even elegant.
Flowers of Syrian hibiscus simple or terry,and terry varieties are more frost-resistant than simple varieties. Preferences to the structure and composition of soils in hibiscus are absent. It adapts equally well to the soils on which roses are traditionally grown. However, the soil must be water- and air-permeable, fertile.
The bush requires moderate watering.The soil should not dry out, but stagnant water is dangerous. It is he who can cause a variety of problems in a plant such as hibiscus. Leaves turn yellow, young shoots dry up, buds fall off - all these are consequences of irrationally abundant watering.
Need garden hibiscus in top dressing with high phosphorus content. Do them every 15-18 days. In autumn the plant is simultaneously fertilized with potassium. This will help him survive the winter.
These are the main stages of care for exotic hibiscus, an elegant ornamental plant.
